Johann Sebastian Bach Volume 1; His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... translation of Wilhelm Meister is called "apprenticeship," and the second, "travels." This analogy has been followed in the present work--the book just concluded being called Ausbildungsjahre, or "years of formation," and from the third book onwards, " Meisterschaft." Translators' note. 168 This is related by Forkel, and can hardly be pure invention on his part. BOOK III. THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF BACH'S "MASTERSHIP." BOOK III. THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF BACH'S "MASTERSHIP." I. BACH AT MUHLHAUSEN.--HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. THE post of Organist to the church "Divi Blasii," in the free imperial city of Miihlhausen, had risen to special celebrity from the many highly gifted artists who had filled it during the last century and a half. From 1566 to 1610 (May 24), Joachim Moller von Burck (born in 1541)--the friend of Johann Eccard, a man who may be regarded as having given the chief impulse to the earnest musical feeling for which Miihlhausen was long distinguished1--laboured there. At the end of the year 1654, Johann Rudolf Ahle came to fill the post (born 1625), and was as efficient as a leader of public affairs as he was as an organist and composer, for he became a member of the council, and even a burgomaster of the town. He died in the prime of life (July 8, 1673); from the beginning of the year 1672 his son, Johann Georg, had already officiated for him, and he now succeeded his father. He was equally distinguished for his musical talents, and like him filled a place in the town council, and he also won from the Emperor Leopold I. the title of poet laureate "for his virtue and splendid talents, but particularly for his admirable proficiency in the noble science of German poetry and for his rare...